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<br />" <br /> <br />which had been left there the night before. . There were ~ deer <br /> <br />grazing in the field. <br /> <br />Early in the Spring each year when the gNss firot begins to grow <br /> <br />.e have watched deer. come from ~he cedar hills into the fields to <br /> <br />eat. On different occasimns wo have counted from 30 to 150 deer <br /> <br />teeding in and near our fields and neighbors tields. <br /> <br />Also in the winter I can tes.tiC)' to their presence. One year a <br /> <br />tew years ago we had a largo stack Of baled haY within 25 feet ot <br /> <br />our driveway. We have a mercury light in our yard and olmos t aJ11 <br /> <br /> <br />time of tar dark we could look out our window and see deer eating <br /> <br />on our hay stack. Ws counted trom 3 to 8. and it was a tamily <br /> <br />contest to soe who would see the big 4-point buck tirst each nigh.. <br /> <br />This year trom our winter feed ground for the cattle we counted as ma~ <br /> <br />as 26 leaving the field. or grazing in tha sa.gs brUsh and cedars nearby. <br /> <br />I, too, lova wildlite and I too stop each time I see deer to thrill <br /> <br /> <br />to the grace and-beauty ot them. We never tire ot watching them <br /> <br /> <br />and even a porcupine ambling across_ thef1eld will bring -the whole <br /> <br /> <br />tan1l;y out to see. <br /> <br />As you havs heard they are around our place all seasons. It -their <br /> <br />grazing had been destroyed they would have lett. It they had to <br /> <br />haVe the acreage that the project will include to live abundantly <br /> <br /> <br />they would be there inetead ot -in our tields and ournei&bbors <br /> <br />tields, as all ourneighbore can testify that they are. <br /> <br />The project will not destroy natUral habitat as cla1!lied by cony. <br /> <br /> <br />All land till not be irrigable 4s you can readily .tell by the <br /> <br />land classitications. Only a portion ot it and the rest_will be <br /> <br /> <br />lett in its natural state. The deer will continue to abound in and <br /> <br />around the tields as they do right here on the tarms and ranches <br /> <br />that have been here for the last 50 years. <br /> <br />rr <br />I <br />